哈佛大学幸福课课件07.ppt

Goal Setting
Goal setting theory and practice
Managing time
From material to happiness perception
Overview
Goals and Performance
Focus
“Being focused on a task anization for efficiency both within anism and in the environment” Abraham Maslow
Resilience
Beliefs as self-fulfilling prophecies (knapsack)
Words create worlds
Concepts conceive
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Goals and Wellbeing
Liberating
Future goals as means; present experiences as ends
The case of unhappy achievers
Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain, nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.
“Contemporary researchers emphasize that it is the process of striving after goals—rather than goal attainment per se—that is crucial for happiness and positive affectivity.” David Watson
“Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one’s goals.” Myers & Diener
Live not for battles won.Live not for the-end-of-the-song.Live for the along.  Gwendolyn Brooks
Self-Concordant Goals
Aligned with personal interests and values
Freely chosen goals
‘Want to’ vs. ‘Have to’
“What do you really, really want to do?”
Life is too short to do what I have to do; it’s barely long enough to do what I want to do.
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